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``Negative interest rates are an excellent idea--and perhaps the only way to keep the financial game going a bit longer--but, given these unintended consequences, they are also a terrible idea. The bankers know that. They want to preserve their cult's status, and constantly talk about raising interest rates. But they haven't yet, because they also know that just a small increase will result in trillions of dollars of losses, triggering widespread business failures and ushering in the Greatest Great Depression Ever. This is not a problem for them to solve; this is a predicament. They will delay and pray, and make pronouncements loaded with keywords designed to please the high-frequency trading algorithms that are in charge of artificially levitating the "free market" with judiciously timed injections of "free money." But in the end all they can do is act brave, wait for a distraction and then... run for the exits! And your job is to make it to the exits before they do.''



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